02/24/2015
Our intern Azucena is anxious to present to the students!
Getting Educated Now to Empower is a a one day completely bilingual conference hosted by MEChA de UCSC and Engaging Education on Sat. March 8th, 2015!
Twenty-Eight years ago, MEChA de UCSC organized Parent-Student Conference, now know as G.E.N.T.E. (Getting Educated Now to Empower) a one day completely bilingual conference hosted by MEChA de UCSC in collaboration with Engaging Education (http://engagingeducation.org) on Saturday March 8th, 2015! The goal of G.E.N.T.E. is to provide workshops, tours, resources, performances, and discussions which
02/24/2015
Our intern Azucena is anxious to present to the students!
02/24/2015
Getting ready to present at Cesar E. Chavez Middle school!
11/13/2014
Just finished a MEChA presentation in Ms. Pistilli's sixth grade class. Good job everyone!
11/12/2014
Coordinators working on the reverse time
11/11/2014
The GENTE team has a lot planned for this year's conference. But for that we need to make our backwards timeline first!
10/14/2014
!Buenos dias mi GENTE! Good morning y'all! Just wanted to wish everyone a good rest of their week, and here's to starting the planning for the GENTE 2015 parent/student conference! !
05/28/2014
Congratulations to the newly elected GENTE Coordinators for 2015! Y'all were so pivotal in the planning process this year, we know you'll do great things!
Where do we begin? GENTE 2014 was a smashing success!! Thank you to our amazing participants and to all the awesome volunteers!! Thank you to our speakers Karina Cervanteza and Hector Perla for your amazing words of wisdom! And to all our beautiful performers, facilitators, MC's and workshop presenters you were such a vital and cool part of our program! We hope to see you all next year!!
GENTE 2014 :)
Hello everyone! We are at the 24 hour mark! Tomorrow, May 24th, GENTE 2014 commences at 8am! Everyone who is still interested in volunteering please contact us at [email protected]!
Thank you everyone for all the support so far; from liking our page to coming to the volunteer mixer.
We'll see you soon!!
05/20/2014
Hello comunidad! we still need volunteers for GENTE to run smoothly! If you are interested in volunteering but were unable to make the volunteer mixer please let us know! You may contact us here or email us at [email protected]. Please spread the word around!
We are exactly 10 days away from GENTE 2014!
If you or anyone you know wants to get involved with our conference by volunteering, then come to our Volunteer mixer next Monday the 19th @ 8PM at the Ethnic Resource Center!
And as always, feel free to email us with any questions @ [email protected]
05/06/2014
G.E.N.T.E was mentioned in the Santa Cruz Sentinel!
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/watsonville/ci_25696619/watsonvilles-cinco-de-mayo-celebration-fills-downtown-streets
Watsonville's Cinco de Mayo celebration fills downtown streets Watsonville >> Thousands gathered downtown for a fiesta of the ears, mouth and nose Sunday, in celebration of Mexican culture.